NATURAL HISTORY- 
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ANIMALS of the MONKEY KIND. 
HE ape, or monkey clafs, is cliftinguifli- 
i eel from all others by their limilitude to 
man. They have hands, inftead of paws ; 
their eye-lids, lips, and breafts, greatly re- 
femble thofe of the human race; while their 
internal ftrufture bears the like conforma- 
tion. We recommend, therefore, to thofe 
who make their perfons the principal objedl 
of attention, to confid^r their affinity to this 
part ol the brute creation, to induce them 
to cultivate thofe mental qualifications, which 
can alone diftinguilh them from the inferior 
daffies of beings 1 
In the well known ftory of Peter the ivild 
boy, we fee the impprtance of the cultiva- 
tion of our infant faculties. This boy was 
found by George I. in the woods of Ger- 
many, and brought to England in the year 
1700, when he was fuppoled to be about ten 
or twelve years old ; at which time his agili- 
ty in climbing trees, is faid to have been fur- 
prifing. He mufthave been loll, or left in the 
woods in his early childhood, perhaps loon af- 
ter he was able to walk ; however it might 
have happened, his infant impreffions of fo- 
ciety were loll, and his fublcquent fenti- 
ments, being dictated by his favage (ituation, 
having ko opportunity of learning and prac- 
tifing fpeech, he continued till his death a 
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